How to improve your grammar?
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Re: How to improve your grammar?
Don't text - just kidding, but oh my, texting is likely to be the ruination of our language.
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My grammar was flawless until leaving school and getting into bad habits.
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I think the best way to improve your grammar is to engage yourself into reading on an everyday basis. You can include newspapers, magazines, articles and you'll get to know how to frame your sentences in a proper way.
To get even better, try and write a small article daily.
Practising daily would make you perfect!
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If using an essay or dissertation for your examples, make sure they're fiction; nonfiction tends to follow different style guides--which does affect some punctuation.jessejaiden94 wrote:Nur, I would recommend reading pieces that you consider to be outside of your current grammatical level. Go find a dissertation or essay that looks complex, take notes on what you don't understand, try to form educated guesses as to what your notes might mean, and then search the internet and compare results. Good luck, friend.
Also, if using other works at all as examples, keep in mind that books written by Brits, Aussies, or Canadians (for example) will be punctuated differently than those published in the US. When the books were published will make a difference too. Many classics follow older grammatical rules.
Best way to learn the right rules is to take a class or two. If your grammar is impeccable, your editor will have less reason to mess with your prose.
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Yes, I've noticed this! I'm a native speaker who is also a stickler for grammar, but I think that I am in the minority!book_fiend wrote:Native speakers of English tend to have atrocious grammar because we learned to speak English in primary school without ever learning the grammar rules that accompany the language. It is only those who learned English as a second language that tend to strive to be grammatically accurate. Kind of ironic, isn't it?
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